Entries from April 2007 ↓

Performancing has just announced the re-release of pMetrics Blog Analytics1 Is it the best blog stats ever? Keep reading! Most bloggers are stats junkies, constantly looking for useful information about site visitors. Stats give bloggers the information needed to assess the success of recent changes and help us formulate strategies for improving the quality of [...]

Last November, I wrote that the Google Sitemap Protocol (open-source protocol based on XML) had become the de facto Standard in the search engine industry. Webmasters no longer had to submit sitemaps in different formats to different search engines. However, only Google and Yahoo! had sitemap submission sites. In a recent post on Official Google Webmaster [...]

Using Google AdSense on your blog? Probably! AdSense seems to be everywhere these days. Everyone is blending their text ads using the same color palette producing similar and sometimes exactly the same ads resulting in a new form of ad blindness. A new site (established Dec. 2006) called adClustr is offering free innovative ad [...]

Nitobi, a software company in Vancouver, Canada has released RobotReplay, an online service that records and plays back visitor sessions for nearly any personal website, corporate site or blog. The recorded sessions show how visitors interact with a website — every mouse movement and click, keystroke, where users click, how far down the page [...]

Using WordPress for e-commerce? Or, just adding purchase or sponsor links to your post? Then, you need the Textlink Adder Plugin. Adding a plain text link in the middle or at the bottom of a post is just not eye-catching enough for someone quickly scanning through your page. Deep-linking only works if a visitor [...]

Are you using the Related Posts (aka, Related Entries) Plugin? If not, you should! As much as we would like to think that blog visitors are interested in anything we write, the majority of visitors are looking for something specific. And, unless you’re lucky enough to be one of the top 10-20 bloggers, most [...]

Feedburner (GOOG: 537.00 +1.89%), a RSS feed management service, previously allowed only one animator per feed address. Most bloggers chose the headline animator to promote their site. That left email as a neglected source of targeted traffic. As of April 4th, Feedburner has done a major Headline Animator Overhaul. Now, unlimited multiple animators are allowed [...]